Gigapans

Frankfurt's skyline is fairly unique in Germany and as a result Frankfurt is often called "Mainhatten", a play on the name of the river that flows through Frankfurt, the Main river. Frankfurt itself is named after a ford in the river used by the Franks in ancient times: Frankfurt is "Ford of the Franks", as it were.
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This gigapan is of the Russian Chapel in Bad Homburg, Germany. It is a Russian Orthodox Chapel, still in use (and closed except for services).
It was built between 1896 and 1899 by Lous Jacob, architect was the St. Peterburg architect Leonti Benois, the grandfather of Peter Ustinov, the actor. The Russian state adviso...

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This is a gigapan of the Green Citadel in Magdeburg, Germany, the last work of Friedensreich Hunderwasser, the Austrian artist and architect. It's a fairly wild and crazy piece of construction and replaced a humdrum and run-down apartment building complex with this. There are several inner courtyards as well, and scarc...

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Finally some decent weather! I've planned this particular one for about 2 months now, but we've had such terrible weather that it was moot in trying. Finally, today, we had some sunshine. The gigapan is taken from the top of the Kaufhof building at the end of the Zeil pedestrian zone, basically on the 8th floor. Taken ...